Clothers-pin.



Patented Oct. 2, I900. G. R. TOWERS.

CLOTHES PIN.

(Applicatiqn filed July 11, 1900.)

(No Model.)

W] 7 NESSES UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES R. TOWERS, OF THORNTON, TEXAS.

CLOTHES-PIN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 659,044, dated October 2, 1900.

Application filed July 11, 1900. Serial No. 23,248. (No model.)

To ctZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES R. TOWERS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Thornton, in the county of Limestone and State of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Pins; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to new and useful improvements in clothes-pins or devices for holding clothes upon clothes-lines; and it consists in a device made, preferably, of springwire metal and adapted to have at each end a hook, which is held under tension of the spring over the line, said holder adapted to slide upon the line for the purpose of bolding clothes at various locations upon the line. More specifically the invention consists in a clothes pin or holder made of a single piece of spring-wire, which is coiled at its middle portion loosely about the clothes-line and adapted to slide thereon, while its ends are formed into hooks at right angles to the length of the wire and adapted to spring over and hold the clothes to the clothes-line.

The invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings, which, with the letters of reference marked thereon, form part of this application, and in which drawings similar letters of reference indicate like parts throughout the several views, in which Figure l is a perspective view of my improved clothes pin or holder shown as applied to the clothes-line. Fig. 2'is a perspective view'showing the hooked ends of the holder detached from the clothes-line, and Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail view of the clothes pin or holder removed from the clothes-line.

Reference now being had to the details of the drawings by letter, A designates a springwire, which is preferably coiled at its middle portion so as to receive a clothes-line B, which may be of metal or any other suitable material. The space within the coil should be somewhat larger than the diameter of the clothes-line, so as to allow the coil to slide freely upon the line. Each arm of said spring-wire is coiled, as at 0, adjacent to the coil which slides upon the clothes-line, and near each end of the wire a hook D is formed at right angles to the length of said wire. These hooks, one at each end of the wire, are adapted to spring over the clothes-line in the manner illustrated in the drawings, and said hooks are held by the tension of the wire to the line, the clothes which are to be hung upon the clothes-line being previously folded over the line and engaged by said hooks. When the hooks are caught over the clothesline, the sections of the pins between the circles C and the central coil will bear against the under portions of the clothes-line.

From the foregoing it will be observed that a holder or clothes-pin constructed in accordance with my invention may be slid along the line and adjusted for use at various distances apart to accommodate the holding of clothes of various sizes, and the flexibility of the arms will serve to hold the hooks at the ends thereof securely against the clothes which have been previously folded over the clothes-line.

I am aware that it is common in the art to construct clothes-lines made up of sections having clamping ends for the purpose of holding the clothes at given distances apart, and I make no claim for such construction, the essential feature of my invention being the provision of a device for holding clothes to clothes-lines, which may be slid along the line and utilized at any desired location.

What I claim to be new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

As an improved article of manufacture a clothes-pin made of a piece of flexible wire coiled at its middle portion to receive a clothes-line, the arms of said clothes-pin being bent to form circles O, and the ends formed into hooks to engage over the line, each arm bearing against the under portion of the line the entire distance between the middle coil and said circles O when the hooked ends of the pin are caught over the line, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES R. TOWERS.

Witnesses:

J. Q. PRINGLE, J. A. Q. PRINGLE. 

